>Thanks to Bill for some interesting posts. I am wondering, with regard to
>the difference between 'creator' and 'conditor' whether there is also a
>simple matter of stylistic preference for what might have seemed a word
>with more formal, high-classical, even historiographic associations (as in
>'ab urbe condita') than were possible with 'creator'. Ambrose was
>certainly alive to the nuances of style, which of course embraces matters
>of semantics. I haven't the time to check the databases--this is merely a
>hunch.
>
Thank you. Yes, all these associations cluster around a word, and it is a
delicious pastime to unravel them, particularly when one feels that the author
was himself alive to the nuances and chose his words with care. There are
also metrical considerations into which I have not gone.
Bill.
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